House Republicans are under pressure to succeed in the investigations of Hunter Biden and President Joe Biden as polling shows that a majority of people are ready to move on from the GOP's investigations.
The House Oversight Committee began looking into Hunter Biden's business dealings at the start of the new Congress, with Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the committee, saying the investigations are just "beginning" and that there are "many more" revelations to come.
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The committee's investigations into Hunter Biden are just some of several inquiries into the Biden administration and the president's job performance in areas such as the "weaponization" of the FBI and Justice Department, the southern border, and the origin of COVID-19.
While some investigations have proven fruitful, such as a recent report indicating a Hunter Biden associate linked to a Chinese company paid family members "millions and millions of dollars from our adversaries," others have shown little to no involvement by Joe Biden himself.
However, Comer has been insistent that his committee's inquiries into the Biden family's dealings will be proven successful.
"I don't think the White House ever dreamed we would get bank records. I got bad news for the White House: This is just the beginning, we're gonna get a lot more bank records, and they're gonna have to continue to backpedal and come up with some type of reason why the Biden family has received millions and millions of dollars from our adversaries," Comer said.
However, House Republicans are putting themselves under a microscope to make successful headway in these investigations, as interest in Hunter Biden, his business dealings, and his laptop is steadily declining among the public.
A January poll from NBC News showed 55% of people believed congressional Republicans would "spend too much time investigating Biden and not enough time on other priorities."
In the same poll, 63% of respondents said they had little to no confidence that Congress would conduct fair and impartial investigations into Biden and the administration.
If the investigations prove to be unsuccessful or produce little evidence in favor of the House Republicans, it could negatively affect their ability to maintain their already narrow majority in the House in 2024.
A Pew Research poll from January showed that 65% of people, including 4 in 10 Republicans, were concerned that GOP lawmakers would focus too much on probing into the Biden administration, something Democrats have also claimed would cost them politically.
“I think this was litigated in 2020, and I don’t think this is what’s gonna have traction,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said to the Hill. “I’m far more concerned about what’s gonna happen with the economy and manufacturing and inflation than this."
“I don’t think a voter in Pennsylvania is waking up and thinking about Hunter Biden subpoenas, I think they’re thinking about the price of eggs and whether manufacturing jobs are coming back,” Khanna added.
Conservatives are also placing pressure on Comer and committees to find results, with strategists stating that it's too soon to determine if they will find them.
“They’re asking the right questions. The question is are they going to get any answers,” Republican strategist John Feehery, a former House GOP aide, said. “If you can make a direct link to what his business dealings were, that becomes a much more interesting story."
House Oversight received a long-fought victory on March 14 after the Treasury Department said it would allow the committee to review suspicious activity bank reports by Hunter Biden and his associates.
While celebrating the request's approval, Comer did not hesitate to blast the Biden administration for withholding the information.
"For over 20 years, Congress had access to these reports, but the Biden administration changed the rules out of the blue to restrict our ability to conduct oversight," Comer said last week.
Republican lawmakers have pushed back against criticism, saying it is important to investigate Hunter Biden's business transactions.
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“In my district, it’s a very big priority. And in most districts, I think it’s a very big priority," Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), a member of the Oversight Committee, said. "People want to know, they want to see what is going on behind the scenes."
"And we think where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” she continued.